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Agreed.  But maybe part of their concern stems from how complicit the telecoms were when the government demanded that they hand over data.  In that situation you might voluntarily choose to let a private company know certain information about you that you might not voluntarily share with the government, but your wishes get violated.

Step by step. It is voluntary, just a convenience. And once usership is to a certain level it will become tied to other services. If you want to use service A you have to accept service D,F and M.

Want backup? Get an external or burn to disc. I am techilliterate and I can do it. I use a USB powered external, and burn to disc from it for the large volume stuff. Though, I got a 55.8 GB external, put all our pics, my PDFs and video files into it and still have 50 GB of free space. Burned pics to disc so we can take them to other people’s computers and let them take the ones they want.

I just don’t see online storage as a good idea. It is a privacy issue, to a degree, also, it is dependability. Far too many things can go wrong, I just don’t buy that it is preferable to hard storage.

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2hotel9 hits the nail right on the head. If files and data are valuable or sensitive enough to save, why would you save it on someone else’s system? DUH!
Or, who stores their most valued or private possessions in their neighbor’s cigar-box?

Well there is the secure storage factor.

I keep the family pictures on two computers at home, an external hard drive AND an external hard drive I keep at work. 

I could see using the Gdrive for off site storage of things like family pictures. 

The other advantage would be that these same pictures would be available anywhere with a connection.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.